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In search of Lake Wobegon
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Garrison Keillor |
"In the twenty-seven years since Garrison Keillor first brought it to life, the town of Lake Wobegon has become a national treasure. Every Saturday night, when that unmistakable voice says "It has be… |
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Molotov's magic lantern
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Rachel Polonsky |
When the author, a British journalist, moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was Stalin's henchman V… |
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Imagined London
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Anna Quindlen |
"This book is a tale of three cities: the fictional London that lives in the pages of writers from Shakespeare to P. D. James and Martin Amis; the historical metropolis where so many immortal authors… |
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Four dreamers and Emily
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Stevie Davies |
Four chaste ladies, one of them a 60-year-old virgin, discover passionate love while attending a stuffy conference on Emily Bronte. A look at the influence of literature on love. |
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The London of Sherlock Holmes
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Thomas Bruce Wheeler |
This book identifies over 400 sites in Greater London associated with Sherlock Holmes. In addition to placing the sites in adventure context and grouping them by underground station, the book has the… |
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Amore and amaretti
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Victoria Cosford |
Takes you behind the scenes of the restaurants and bars in Tuscany, Umbria, Elba and Perugia. This title includes reviews and features in women's travel and food press. |
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Precipitous city
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Trevor Royle |
Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful of the world's cities, a place of splendor whose craggy skyline brings together two entirely different worlds. To the south of its main thoroughfare, Princes St… |
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Scribblin' for a Livin'
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Thomas J. Reigstad |
In August 1869, 33-year-old journalist Samuel Clemens -- or as he was later known, Mark Twain -- moved to Buffalo, New York. At the time, he had high hopes of establishing himself as a successful new… |
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An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England
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Brock Clarke |
This book is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love a… |
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Reading on location
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Luisa Moncada |
"Reading on Location is essential for anyone wishing to learn more about a potential destination, wanting to follow in the footsteps of a much loved fictional character or desiring to experience a pl… |
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No-Man's Lands
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Scott Huler |
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odysse… |
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Never can say goodbye
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Sari Botton |
"From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City. Th… |
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Plotted
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Andrew DeGraff |
"This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps -- all inspired by literary classics -- offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed a… |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from Aug… |
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The Friendship
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Adam Sisman |
The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and ColeridgeThe friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, th… |
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Enchanted Cornwall
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Daphne du Maurier |
This is Daphne du Maurier's personal memoir, the story of how enchanted Cornwall formed her as a writer -- how the spirit of Cornwall awakened in her a response so imaginative that it transformed ord… |
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Dickens's England
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Michael Hardwick |
Conducts the reader to every English scene and building connected at all significantly with Dickens which can still be seen today. |
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Me and Mr. Darcy
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Alexandra Potter |
He's every woman's fantasy ... After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she's had it with modern-day men. She'd rather pour herself a glass of wine, curl up with PRIDE AN… |
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Michael Palin's Hemingway adventure
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Basil Pao,Michael Palin |
Companion site to Michael Palin's PBS production under the same title on the life and locales of Ernest Hemingway. Moves in and out of past and present to the places associated with Hemingway: Chicag… |
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A Journey into Flaubert's Normandy
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Susannah Patton |
Richly illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and period artwork, this guidebook takes tourists and armchair travelers on a stimulating journey through the small towns, rolli… |
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